Cooperative Agreement 2012MUBXK012

This Project Grant award from the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) under the Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence program (CFDA 16.820) provides $1,523,688 to the Committee for Public Counsel Services (CPCS) in Boston, MA to expand their existing hair review project and identify cases from 1970-2000 where serology was used to secure murder convictions. The project aims to identify cases where DNA testing could potentially establish actual innocence and improve reentry support. Key activities...

The Washington State Patrol Crime Laboratory Division (WSPCLD) will use a $550,000 Project Grant from the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance to sustain its Postconviction DNA Initiative through September 2025. Under the grant program titled "Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence" (CFDA 16.820), WSPCLD will continue partnering with the Washington Innocence Project to provide innocent prisoners with timely access to DNA technologies for...

The Alameda County District Attorney's Office received a $1,523,688 Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence program (CFDA 16.820). The funding will enable the establishment of a Conviction Integrity Unit (CIU) to review cases for potential wrongful convictions, prioritizing those involving violent felonies where DNA testing may demonstrate actual innocence. This includes hiring a new attorney and...

This federal Project Grant award, provided by the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance through the Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence program (CFDA 16.820), will fund the California Governor's Office of Emergency Services (Cal OES) to establish the California DNA Assistance Program (CADNAP). The $1,800,000 grant, awarded on October 1, 2023, will support CADNAP's efforts to identify post-conviction cases of violent felony offenses where DNA testing...

The Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded $550,000 under the Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence federal grant program (CFDA 16.820) to the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office for a project period of October 1, 2022 through September 30, 2025. The award will support efforts by the Wayne County Prosecutor's Conviction Integrity Unit and the Thomas M. Cooley Law School Innocence Project to expedite the review of approximately 250 DNA-related...

The Bureau of Justice Assistance awarded a $855,000 Project Grant under the Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence program (CFDA 16.820) to the Iowa State Public Defender's Wrongful Conviction Division (WCD). The grant will help the WCD and its partners, the Midwest Innocence Project and Drake Law School's Legal Clinic, expand their capacity to identify and litigate claims of actual innocence through postconviction DNA testing. Specifically, the funding will enable the WCD to hire additional...

The Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection (DESPP) in Middletown, CT received a $1,023,689 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence program (CFDA 16.820). The grant funding will enable DESPP to implement modernized record and evidence management systems to benefit postconviction DNA testing. Key activities include: Conducting a comprehensive inventory and electronic cataloguing of retained...

This Project Grant award from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance (CFDA 16.820 - Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence) provides $1,023,688 to the New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (NYC OCME). The funding will enable the OCME to locate and catalogue DNA evidence that may help exonerate individuals wrongfully convicted of violent felony offenses. Specifically, the award will fund overtime for evidence unit personnel to locate vouchered and unvouchered...

The Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office (OPDA) received a $1.4 million Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance under the National Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI, CFDA# 16.833) program. The grant funding will be used to continue improving OPDA's SAKI program in New Orleans, Louisiana. Key initiatives include: screening and prosecuting cold case and DNA database hit sexual assault cases, entering all qualifying cases into VICAP, and creating a...

The New York City Office of the Chief Medical Examiner (NYC OCME) was awarded a $1,523,688 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Justice's Bureau of Justice Assistance under the Postconviction Testing of DNA Evidence program (CFDA 16.820). The grant, awarded on October 1, 2024, will allow the OCME to increase its review of post-conviction cases for DNA testing from 5 to 10 cases per month. This funding will enable the OCME to locate evidence, process DNA, and retest evidence with new...